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The
Garst Museum Lecture Series...
Indian Policy
and the Ohio Frontier
October 24, 2011
Garst
Museum is proud to present Dr.
Douglas Hurt, head of the History Department at Purdue University as he
presents a discussion on Indian Policy and the Ohio Frontier on Sunday,
October
30, 2011, 2:00 PM at the Garst Museum in Greenville, Ohio.
Dr.
Hurt stated, “I became interested
in the Ohio frontier when I worked at the Ohio Historical Society from
1978-1986. After I
left the Society,
Walter Nugent and Malcolm Rohrbough, editors of the
Trans-Appalachian Frontier Series published
by the Indiana University Press invited me to contribute a book on
their Ohio
frontier. I titled
it The Ohio
Frontier: Crucible
of the Old Northwest,
1720-1830. No one
had written much about
the Ohio frontier since the mid twentieth-century except for a few
studies on
military history and Indian leaders.
I
chose to emphasize settlement, agriculture, and social history and the
story of
Indian-white relations between the early settlement period and the time
when
more people began leaving Ohio than immigrating to the state. I closed the book with the
canal era. The
history of Indian and white relations is
important to Ohio and the region during the eighteen and early
nineteenth
centuries. I
continue to find it a
fascinating subject for study.”
Dr.
Hurt holds a Ph.D. in American
history from Kansas State University, and serves as professor and head
of the
Department of History at Purdue University.
He has published nineteen books, the most
recent titled The Big Empty: The
Great Plains during the Twentieth Century
which is part of the Modern American West Series published by the
University of
Arizona Press. He
is a past president
and current Fellow of the Agricultural History Society.
He has served as the editor of Ohio History,
Agricultural History, and the Missouri Historical Review. Currently, he
is
writing about agriculture during the Civil War.
All
lectures are free and open to the
public. Support for the Garst Lecture series comes, in part from the
Stephens
Foundation.
Take
this opportunity to take part in
the Holiday Wreath Silent Auction. Wreaths will be on display and ready
for
bidding.
email:
information@garstmuseum.org
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